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It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.
– Don Drysdale
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
– Adam Duritz
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
– Adam Duritz
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl Reiner.
– Dick Van Dyke
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
– Thomas A. Edison
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The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
– John Edwards
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
– Albert Einstein
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Consider the CEO who refuses to outsource, believing - as does Mr. Dobbs - this hurts America. His competitor, however, wants to increase profits. When he can, he lowers costs by outsourcing, using the savings to put back into his business. The CEO who refused to outsource now must explain to his finicky customers why he intends to charge them more.
– Larry Elder
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Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, business development and business growth exploded.
– Larry Elder
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You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
– Carmen Electra
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
– T. S. Eliot
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
– T. S. Eliot
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you.
– Jim Elliot
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Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.
– Robert Evans
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
– J. W. Eagan
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The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.
– Bernie Ecclestone
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Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
– Frederick Hudson Ecker
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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
– Maria Edgeworth
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It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
– Michael Eisner
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The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
– Michael Eisner
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
– Charles W. Eliot
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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
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I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
– Colin Farrell
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This business about being flung out of paradise is his gift to me. I'm glad I got out; it was getting too hot in there.
– Morton Feldman
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You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
– Bob Feller
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
– Edna Ferber
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German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
– Suzanne Fields
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Our president has always said it was his intention to sign the world's best players - and he believes it makes good business sense.
– Luis Figo
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Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
– Luis Figo
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Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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Our company is built on people-those who work for us, and those we do business with.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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Thought, not money, is the real business capital.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
– Ernst Fischer
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
– Calista Flockhart
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
– B. C. Forbes
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
– Malcolm Forbes
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
– Henry Ford
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
– Henry Ford
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
– Henry Ford
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
– Henry Ford
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
– Henry Ford
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
– Henry Ford
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
– Michael J. Fox
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What other people think about me is not my business.
– Michael J. Fox
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
– Benjamin Franklin
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
– Benjamin Franklin
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
– Benjamin Franklin
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The safest course for all of us as public officials is simply to throw all the money in a sack. Or in the way of one servant in the Biblical parable of the talents, bury the money in the ground rather than accept any risk. The servant's business plan proved reliable but ineffective.
– Dave Freudenthal
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
– Robert Frost
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To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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If we persist in that kind of a system of law virtually every business in America, big and small, is going to have to be run from Sing Sing, Leavenworth or Alcatraz.
– Benjamin F. Fairless
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I wanted to meet people who were outside the business. In Los Angeles, when you're successful in some way, you kind of forget the rest of the world. Here, there are doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, a lot of other worlds. And I wanted to live among people more. I live in this old house with other people. I like going downstairs and saying hello to the doorman next door.
– Barbara Feldon
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There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
– Jerry Della Femina
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I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
– Debbi Fields
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You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me. It was an extension of me... I was never 9-to-5. And I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.
– Debbi Fields
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You don't do business with an institution. You do business with people.
– Debbie Fields
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
– Carly Fiorina
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I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
– Peter Fonda
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The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.
– Glenn Frank
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I'll be with it as long as it takes. Certainly, in this business you need a tremendous amount of inner fortitude to be in it for any kind of length of time, and I've already been doing this for twenty years. I'm just going to keep on working on the things that reach me, the things that I want to be associated with and identified with, both as an actor and a filmmaker.
– Andy Garcia
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If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
– Jeff Garcia
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To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.
– Art Garfunkel
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
– Bill Gates
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
– Bill Gates
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
– Harold S. Geneen
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
– Harold S. Geneen
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
– Harold S. Geneen
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
– Harold S. Geneen
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
– J. Paul Getty
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
– J. Paul Getty
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
– J. Paul Getty
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I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
– Andy Gibb
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I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
– Andy Gibb
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I gained a fascination for the business, for understanding it, for archaeology, for ancient civilizations.
– Barry Gibb
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I like every part of the pop business - though I'm sick and tired of back-biters.
– Barry Gibb
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
– Emma Goldman
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I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to go home and pick up their check. That's never been the case for me. I'm always the first to arrive and the last to leave because I truly enjoy what I'm doing. That's why I've been in show business for so long-I love it!
– Gale Gordon
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I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.
– Elliott Gould
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
– Paul Graham
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I choose to live in Nashville because my whole family is there. I couldn't re-engage with the ever-changing face of the company, so I'm not begrudging any of that. As the music business continues to change, I don't know if it would ever make sense to sign with two majors. Record companies just have to reinvent the wheel as they go.
– Amy Grant
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
– Alan Greenspan
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It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
– Christine Gregoire
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th did far more than destroy the World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, and leave a scar in the heartland of Pennsylvania.The terrorists struck at the heart of business and industry, and no industry was hit harder than the tourism industry, the lifeblood of Nevada.
– Kenny Guinn
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People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
– Sarah Michelle Gellar
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There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.
– David Gibbs
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In conducting business (especially for the office) never forget that the greatest danger arises from cocksure pride.
– Cass Gilbert
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You see, advertising is a substitute for a salesperson, so it should be likeable. Who would buy from a salesperson who is rude, arrogant or insulting? People like to do business with people they like, therefore they respond to advertising created by people who like people.
– Jerry Goodis
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It's a strange business, all jeers and no cheers.
– Tom Gorman
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I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.
– Howard Luck Gossage
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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
– Betty Grable
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We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.
– Robin Gross
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
– Jan Hammer
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
– John Hancock
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We are all on the same trip in the band. We all realize that people in the music business, and the audience have an eye on us because collectively our history is extensive.
– Herbie Hancock
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